Peptidoglycan model
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- Last Updated: Wednesday, 28 October 2020 10:21
A Martini model of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan is now available, thanks to the nice work of Vaiwala et al. The parameters and other files can be found here.
Death is just the beginning ....
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- Last Updated: Saturday, 24 October 2020 08:52
Check out a nice paper from Lucendo et al, in PNAS, showing how TM helix dimerization plays a role in apoptosis. Featuring the Martini 3 beta release, corroborated by atomistic simulations and experimental data.
MDVoxelSegmentation
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- Last Updated: Saturday, 17 October 2020 13:06
Working with large systems containing multiple bilayers or other dynamic macroscopic objects? Check out the new MDVoxelSegmentation tool.
Bottom up versus top down
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- Last Updated: Tuesday, 22 September 2020 12:05
Cool paper on the phase behavior of liquid crystals, demonstrating the transferability of Martini, outperforming bottom up models:
T.D. Potter, M. Walker, M.R. Wilson. Self-assembly and mesophase formation in a non-ionic chromonic liquid crystal: insights from bottom-up and top-down coarse-grained simulation models. Soft Matter, 2020. online.
Cholesterol artefacts
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- Last Updated: Thursday, 17 September 2020 11:29
Be aware of using proper mdp settings when simulating cholesterol, as it might cause artificial phase separation if you don't, according to Javanainen et al: arXiv:2009.07767
Organic semiconductors
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- Last Updated: Wednesday, 09 September 2020 14:56
Martini is not only suitable to simulate biomolecular processes, but also increasingly to study material properties. Check the latest paper from our group on resolving the impact of polar side chains on electronic and structural properties of donor-acceptor (DA) interfaces of organic semiconductors:
Alessandri et al., Advanced Funct. Materials, 2020, online.